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Experimental Clue About Magnetic Excitations Important for High-Temperature Superconductivity

Intrinsic inefficiencies plague current systems for the generation and delivery of electricity, with significant energy lost in transit. High-temperature superconductors (HTS)—uniquely capable of transmitting electricity with zero loss when chilled to subzero temperatures—could revolutionize the planet's aging and imperfect energy infrastructure, but the remarkable materials remain fundamentally puzzling to physicists. To unlock the true potential of HTS technology, scientists must navigate a quantum-scale labyrinth and pin down the phenomenon's source.

5 Aug 2013

Hubble Telescope Helps Solve Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Burst Origin

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently provided the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma ray bursts are produced by the merger of two small, super-dense stellar objects.

5 Aug 2013

New 60,000 Star Online Data Set May Help Reveal Formation of Milky Way Galaxy

Scientists with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), including Penn State astronomers, have released to the public a new online data set featuring 60,000 stars that are helping to reveal how our Milky Way galaxy formed.

3 Aug 2013

Research May Enable Exploiting Quantum Resistance of Graphene for Reference

Pure curiosity led him to embark on graphene research. Then, the hype surrounding the miracle material hit with full force. Now Sergey Kubatkin hardly has time in the lab anymore for what he really wants to spend time with: his own experiments.

3 Aug 2013

Quantum Dots May be a Safe Tool for Diagnostic Imaging in Humans

Tiny silicon crystals caused no health problems in monkeys three months after large doses were injected, marking a step forward in the quest to bring such materials into clinics as biomedical imaging agents, according to a new study.

2 Aug 2013

Story of Higgs Boson to be Told at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

The story behind the discovery of the Higgs Boson, which is thought to explain why fundamental particles have mass, is being told by a team from Brunel University, London, at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition this week.

2 Aug 2013

Gargantuan Galaxies Slow Their Growth Over Time

Our universe is filled with gobs of galaxies, bound together by gravity into larger families called clusters. Lying at the heart of most clusters is a monster galaxy thought to grow in size by merging with neighboring galaxies, a process astronomers call galactic cannibalism.

2 Aug 2013

Surprising Revelations About Quenched Galaxies

Some galaxies hit a point in their lives when their star formation is snuffed out, and they become "quenched". Quenched galaxies in the distant past appear to be much smaller than the quenched galaxies in the Universe today. This has always puzzled astronomers — how can these galaxies grow if they are no longer forming stars? A team of astronomers has now used a huge set of Hubble observations to give a surprisingly simple answer to this long-standing cosmic riddle.

2 Aug 2013

UCLA Researchers to Contribute to Development of the Thirty Meter Telescope

With the signing last week of a "master agreement" for the Thirty Meter Telescope — destined to be the most advanced and powerful optical telescope in the world — the University of California and UCLA moved a step closer to peering deeper into the cosmos than ever before.

2 Aug 2013

Liquid Water Reservoir May Lurk Under the Icy Surface of Saturn's Moon

The intensity of the jets of water ice and organic particles that shoot out from Saturn's moon Enceladus depends on the moon's proximity to the ringed planet, according to data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

1 Aug 2013

Physicists Predict Deviations in Probability of B Meson Decays

A team of physicists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the French CNRS have predicted deviations in the probability of one of the B meson decays that have been detected experimentally in the LHC accelerator at CERN. Confirmation of these results would be the first direct evidence of the existence of the 'new physics', a more fundamental theory than the current Standard Model.

1 Aug 2013

NASA Spots Young Stellar System That Blinks

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a young stellar system that "blinks" every 93 days. Called YLW 16A, the system likely consists of three developing stars, two of which are surrounded by a disk of material left over from the star-formation process.

1 Aug 2013

Extremely Significant Steps Realized Toward Manufacturable Quantum Dot Solar Cell

The research program of Natcore Technology Inc. being conducted under a joint research agreement with Rice University has accomplished extremely significant steps toward realization of a manufacturable quantum dot solar cell. The work is being supervised by Prof. Andrew Barron, a Natcore co-founder.

31 Jul 2013

Lower Thermal Radiation Threshold Found for Planetary Runaway Greenhouse

It might be easier than previously thought for a planet to overheat into the scorchingly uninhabitable “runaway greenhouse” stage, according to new research by astronomers at the University of Washington and the University of Victoria published July 28 in the journal Nature Geoscience.

31 Jul 2013

College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Hosts U.S. Secretary of Commerce

Further illustrating the success of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s strategic blueprint for nanotechnology-enabled innovation and high-tech job growth across New York, as well as its recognition as a national and global model for economic competitiveness, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) hosted U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker on Tuesday, July 30 as part of her “Listening Tour” across America.

31 Jul 2013

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Experimental Clue About Magnetic Excitations Important for High-Temperature Superconductivity

Hubble Telescope Helps Solve Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Burst Origin

New 60,000 Star Online Data Set May Help Reveal Formation of Milky Way Galaxy

Research May Enable Exploiting Quantum Resistance of Graphene for Reference

Quantum Dots May be a Safe Tool for Diagnostic Imaging in Humans

Story of Higgs Boson to be Told at Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition

Gargantuan Galaxies Slow Their Growth Over Time

Surprising Revelations About Quenched Galaxies

UCLA Researchers to Contribute to Development of the Thirty Meter Telescope

Liquid Water Reservoir May Lurk Under the Icy Surface of Saturn's Moon

Physicists Predict Deviations in Probability of B Meson Decays

NASA Spots Young Stellar System That Blinks

Extremely Significant Steps Realized Toward Manufacturable Quantum Dot Solar Cell

Lower Thermal Radiation Threshold Found for Planetary Runaway Greenhouse

College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering Hosts U.S. Secretary of Commerce

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